Germany isn’t going to “get out of” something it invented. The whole shebang, the EU itself, the euro currency, is that country writ large over the other member states. There’s a reason why the “social market economy” is written into the treaties. The euro itself is patterned after the Deutsche mark. (There’s also a reason why the European Central Bank is on German soil.)
Seems like people don’t realize that Germany is not like the USA; it is not a free market, but a social market. German economists are quite hostile to the free market, which they call the “Anglo-Saxon capitalist market”, and would like to see it gone. Whether the EU remains the vehicle to achieve that or it happens via another medium, it’ll be their plan being executed.
Germany isn’t going to “get out of” something it invented. The whole shebang, the EU itself, the euro currency, is that country writ large over the other member states. There’s a reason why the “social market economy” is written into the treaties. The euro itself is patterned after the Deutsche mark. (There’s also a reason why the European Central Bank is on German soil.)
Seems like people don’t realize that Germany is not like the USA; it is not a free market, but a social market. German economists are quite hostile to the free market, which they call the “Anglo-Saxon capitalist market”, and would like to see it gone. Whether the EU remains the vehicle to achieve that or it happens via another medium, it’ll be their plan being executed.
Interesting analysis. Thanks
Seems Germany has two choices: Control the EU by staying in it. Control the EU by getting out of it. The latter will be better for them in the long run